Play Rehearsal
The curtains opened, and a new set had been created. Now, instead of having the stage become multiple smaller sets, all of the stage had become a classroom.
A spotlight focused on Charles and Peter who were talking by a pillar. In the set up classroom, Cindy was writing something in a journal. Charles looked at Cindy before ducking back behind the pillar and speaking.
“Uh- I guess evolution is not for everyone.”
“You don’t have to do this.” Peter said looking at Charles.
“O-ok-”
“Of course I’ll mock you forever if you don’t.” Peter added, before running off backstage, as Charles shot a betrayed look in his direction.
Pepper chuckled while the rest of them grinned at Micheal, technically Peter’s antics.
“C-c-c-come on, C-c-c-come on”
“Go, go.” Charles egged himself on.
“C-c-c-come on, C-c-c-come on,”
“Yoooo…” Charles said once he saw Cindy again.
“Yo..” Cindy said with a confused smile, before turning back to the journal.
“Uh, is this where you meet for the play?”
“No, this is where you meet for the swim team.” Cindy replied sarcastically.
“I’m joking.” Cindy added, as Charles began to walk away.
“Oh, well I’m Jeremy.” Charles tried to strike a pose but only ended up looking more awkward than before.
“Are you okay?” Cindy said with a smile, ignorant to the quiet laughter from the audience.
“Um, w-what?”
“Well, you seem nervous.” She said.
“Oh, oh no I always, sweat…this much.” Charles’s face took on a horrified and exasperated look.
Thor, Clint and Scott started to laugh, while Sam was shaking with the effort of trying to hold back his.
“I get it.” Cindy said, nodding her head.
“You’re a virgin.” She said happily, as someone actually spit out their drink in the audience.
“Your first play rehearsal.”
“Oh! You think I’m nervous about the play.” Charles said.
“Well why else would you be shaking? A lot...”
“Um, yeah! I’m like totally freaked.” Charles said, collapsing into the chair next to Cindy.
“It’s okay. I’m a bit jealous, actually.” Cindy admitted.
“You never forget your first...play rehearsal~” Cindy grinned after her mock accent. Hope smirked at the girl.
“Coming here is the highlight-”
“Of your day?” Jeremy guessed.
“Yeah right!” Cindy replied, rolling her eyes.
“Of my life.” She said seriously. As she leaned forward in her chair, music began to play in the background.
“I love play rehearsal.” She sang.
“Because it’s the best! Because it is fun.” She exclaimed with a smile.
“I love play rehearsal, and I get depressed as soon as it’s done.” She rested her head on her hand, she then jumped up.
“But not depressed like ‘kill yourself’ depressed. No, I’m not into self-harm, dude I swear, here check my arm.” She shoves her arm in front of Charles’s face where he nodded awkwardly.
“See, I just the word to emphasize the point, Show the passion that I got, I am passionate a lot.” She held her arms to her chest.
She stood on top of her chair. “I have mad, gigantic feelings, red and frantic feelings, about most everything.” On the last verse she jumped off the chair into a spin.
“Like gun control, like spring.”
“Like if I’m living up to all I’m meant to be.” She started jumping from chair to chair.
“I also have a touch of ADD.” She sang, before staring deadpan at the audience, as they laughed.
“Where was I?” She asked.
“Oh! Right!”
“I love play rehearsal.”
“Cause you are equipped.”
“With directions and text.”
“Life is easy in rehearsal.” She sat back down in the chair next to Jeremy.
“You follow a script.”
“So you know what comes next.”
“Anywho the point I’m getting too is sometimes life can’t work out in the way, it works out in the play.” She slowed down the line at the end and stood up to face the audience.
“Like the only time I get to be the center of attention is when I’m Juliet or Blanche Dubois. And can I mention,” She began to dance on the stage, before stopping and adding on.
“That was really one of my best roles, did you see that?” Cindy stopped singing for that line.
“I was..um..incredibly vulnerable, I think.”
“It made me feel like, there just aren’t strong roles for women in theatre these days.” Natasha and Hope smiled while Pepper and Wanda clapped, some of the crowd laughed while a small group of teens in a row a little behind them yelled ‘PREACH’ and cheered the girl on.
“Particularly high school theatre.” She continued.
“Do you find that, because I totally find that.”
She began singing again. “And no matter how hard I try, it’s impossible to narrow down the many reasons why~” She began running across the stage and jumping on the back of the chair, jumping back off once it fell to the ground.
“I love play rehearsal. I happiness cry, whenever it starts.”
“It is just so universal. Getting to try, playing so many parts.
“Mot humans do one thing for all of theirs lives, the thought of that gives me hives.” Cindy shuddered.
“I’ve got so many interests that I wanna pursue, and why am I telling this to you?”
“Guess there’s a part of me that wants to.”
“Really?” Jeremy said, a smile on his face.
“There’s also a part of me that wants to do this.” She said before running up on the front of the stage with the stagelight on her, and starting to jump and scream-
“JHHKJHKJUHKUIGLKUHKUGHUJHBBBHKJBHBKBB.”
“So I did!” Cindy exclaimed, smiling at the crowd.
“She kinda reminds me of Cassie.” Scott said with a smile.
“Back to play rehearsal.”
“My brain is like, bzzzz, my heart is like, woah.” She sat back down in her seat and leaned over to Jeremy.
“Because we're here, at play rehearsal and it’s starting.”
“We’re starting…”
“It’s starting…”
“Soon...”
“Ohhhhhh…” Cindy gave a peace sign to the crowd as the curtains closed.
The audience clapped and cheered as the discussed the song during the short intervention.
“That was so cute.” Clint said, with Wanda nodding and smiling to his statement.
“I must admit that I enjoyed Peter’s lines and the girl, Christine in the play she’s called? Her part was well done.”
“I can’t wait to see what’s next.” Steve said.